The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-07-15
MoGlvnn Exoommunioated,

priest of New York, who has been ad-
vocating Henry Georges land theories
has been formally accommodated by
the Pope of Rome. A large meeting
of the synpathizers of McGlynn was
held in New York on Saturday evening
The deposed priest was present, and
made speech, in the course of which
he said
1t is wonderful evidence of the
wisdom and goodness of the God we
ADORE that in the midst of the trials
and perplexities of life, while our
minds are troubled and our heart
strings torn, there is yet one clear and
simple guide which is given TO every
being and which, if followed and obey
ed by him, will lead to a satisfactory
and perfect deliverance. 1t is won
derfully simple thing. 1t resides with
in him and its only requirements are
perfectly subservient and humble will
to that conscience which teaches men
to do only what is right. This is tho
natural law OF truth which of necessity
precedes all real law.
OuI NtOu Is u rs Ntll Us u
wise one. He will never condemn any
being who follows the dictates of his
conscience, even be that conscience an
errlng one. In obeying it he is forever
obeying the will of God, as Is dogma
of the Catholic faith, and according to
all Christian philosophy and teaching
the man who goes against the Holy
Ghost aud despite the power of any
authority, even the Pope, if man
docs or says anything in obedience to
that power, if in so doing he goes
against his conscience he sins. Even
if high Roman tribunal summons a
man before them for teaching the
truth which he knows to exist, and if
that tribunal should condemn his doc
trines without giving them trial, and
command him to retract them, it is his
duty before God to refuse to do so.
[Cheers, prolonged.
And if it was in its poSer, as it one
time was, but thank God no longer is,
to imprison and martyr the truth and
the persons of those who have read
Gods word ia nature before they have
been able TO see it-should they sum-
mon him and command him to retract
under the penalty OF Imprisonment or
martyrdom, it is his duty to resist and
even be burned alive at the stake rather
than commit the objectionable sin
against the Holy Ghost of declaring
what his conscience believed to be false.
The speaker here referred, as recent
ly, to the imprisonment of Galileo, and
stated that with HIM that man should
say: 81 submit to your sentence while
detesting your tyranny" DIR. McGlynn
continued
1t is no tribute to God to poke out
our eyes so that we cannot see the
truth for ourselves.I 1t is the teaching of
Catholic theology, though that theology
Is often perverted to crafty the lust
and crime of those who are in power
and who teach it (for the theology is
always good, though the teachers are
often wicked) all truth is one No two
truths can clash with each other, for
all truth is one. No two truths can
| clash with each other, for all truth
comes from God, and where, through
the ignorance of the interpreter or
other causes, the word of God in the
Bible or elsewhere is made to seem to
clash with some of the indisputable
truths of nature, it is not that the word
OF God is wrong, but that it has been
falsely represented.
il you want to see true devotion to
the Catholic Church, 90 where it is in
minority and with little power, as in
Ireland and Germany. l reassert that
| know German-Amercan Bishop, an
intimate friend of Cardinal Gibbons,
who said that the Roman authorities
wanted to have Nuncio at the court
of King Grover the First, Here the
doctor stated that the reference to
King Grover was only joke. at is
droll and inconceivable one-the idea
of having Nuncio at Washington
but entirely in keeping with the do
ings of those who conceived the idea
of sending two Italian prelates to
Catholic Ireland. 1t was with
thorough knowledge of the matter l
had in hand that said an Italian nuncio
would be source of corruption and
slavery to the Catholic Church in
America. / also said to an eminent
Catholic lawyer that with my know
ledge of Rome l thought it better to
show ones teeth than to eat humble pie
when endeavoring to get favors from